The listeners know you, you run Fed Trader, oftentimes you're on here talking about macro topics.

You were talking about how you were going to be bullish with some caveats at the very beginning of or at the end of last year you were

talking about this year.

How are you thinking about the markets based on how you were seeing them previously and

how are you thinking about them currently?

Yeah, so thank you for having me.

It's always a pleasure.

I want you know just want to backtrack and I don't think I'm doing something so fancy or anything I think I'm just doing basic

You know kind of pro-trader look at the market

markets moving up markets moving down and keeping things simple

based on a few simple data and facts that I constantly follow.

And sometimes I feel like the market gets swayed by the media or different news and I think that there's a couple

of building blocks. I'm just getting to your question, a couple of building blocks that can

keep you sane in following the market and not get you crazy.

One is fundamentals, two is technicals, and maybe under technicals or maybe its own category of call action.

So fundamentals are earnings moving up,

is the economy doing well, right?

That's its own thing.

Is the Fed getting in the way or not?

Or is the Fed letting the economy go?

That's all called fundamentals, right?

And fundamentals I think are good, right?

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